ted262 wrote:
Wouldn’t be surprised to see the set on sale at their site eventually. I think I got the Appetite 5.1 box for $29.99.
I was going to wait on the Locked n' Loaded...$1000 box....to see if I could get it for $300 and then pull the trigger.
The "regular" Super Deluxe has a retail price of $180, and when the GNR site dropped the price to $40 I jumped all over it. I don't think I ever saw it at $30 but maybe it did get down that far. I know I paid $40 + shipping for mine and was very happy to get it at that price.
Much later on, Universal's website had the Locked n' Loaded set at $400 and then had a 25% off sale site-wide (with a few exceptions), and the Locked n' Loaded set was eligible for the discount. But since the Super Deluxe has all the same optical disks as the Locked n' Loaded set, I ended up passing even though it reached my buy price. Haven't really regretted it either.
I feel sorry for the people who paid $1000 for that box. If anyone is still interested, it's on the GNR site for $400. The Universal store lists it as Sold Out, maybe it will reappear there during a sale for $300, but for now they don't have any.
I think a reasonable price for the Use Your Illusion 7 CD + Blu-ray set would be something like $175. But I don't think I'd be a buyer at that price as I was hoping some demo material and maybe a couple unreleased songs would make it in there (although I don't know if anything was leftover in terms of unreleased songs, was always under the impression that they really emptied the vault for these records). Just two live shows isn't enough to get me all that excited. Would definitely buy if a bargain price ever shows up like with the Appetite box, but they probably learned their lesson after over-manufacturing that one.
Also have been looking at the Ritz footage (yes, the 91 footage, not the 88 footage) on Youtube and it's obvious that some of the stuff is an audience recording but some of it is multi-angle and looks like it was pro-shot and to me the video from what is up, even what could be pro-shot looks really, really rough. Rough enough to NOT do a 4K scan on it. So I'm assuming they must have much, much, much, much, much better footage than what is on Youtube. Just a bit leary of this because the first track they've thrown up on Youtube for this set is You Could Be Mine from that show and it only has the audio. If the video was all that, you think they would have thrown it out there right away to get potential customers all juiced up.